admin @ December 29, 2008 # No Comment Yet
When it comes to DVD recorders, the bargain end of the market is predominantly swimming in no-name Chinese imports. Some are perfunctionary, even fewer perform above their status, but most suck more than a Dyson. Good news, however, has arrived at this end of the market in the form of the unashamedly ‘entry level’ recorder [...]
admin @ December 24, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Garmin plays second (or even third) fiddle to TomTom when it comes to satnav in the UK and it’s hard to see why. The nuvi 770 competes head-to-head against TomTom’s flagship 920 T and it’s just as worthy of pole position.
The immediate thing you notice about the Garmin nuvi 770 is how slim it is, [...]
admin @ December 20, 2008 # No Comment Yet
After a production-related delay of several months, Toshiba’s second HD DVD player is now available in the UK.
The HD-XE1 is a step up model from the cheaper HD-E1, with Toshiba claiming it offers better features and better build quality – not to mention the all-important ability to output 1080p, the best form of hi-def video [...]
admin @ December 20, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Watching the loudspeaker industry struggling to cope with the demands of flatscreen television displays has been an unedifying sport. Yet this is outclassed by the even bigger compromises made by the manufacturers of the sets themselves, who seem to delight in throwing the baby out with the bath water by sacrificing any pretence of sound [...]
admin @ December 18, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Here’s an interesting fact to mull over. The Canon EOS 1Ds Mk III will sell for £6,000, body only. For that, you can get a D3 body, one of the brand-new Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8 N-series lenses and Nikon’s fabulous 14-24mm N-series wide-angle zoom. Remember, the D3 is a full-frame SLR, so that 14mm zoom is [...]
admin @ December 15, 2008 # No Comment Yet
With prices of HD-ready LCD and plasma screens falling, and the dawn of HDTV, HD DVD and Blu-ray breaking, it won’t be long before high definition appears in homes throughout the UK. But a far greater development is the long-awaited arrival of affordable HD filming for the consumer.
Enter Sony’s £2,500 HDR-FX1E HDV/DV camcorder.This little beauty [...]
admin @ December 13, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Come with us as we travel back exactly one year into the past (we won’t be here long; humour us). Nobody outside Apple and AT&T knows about the iPhone, and mock-ups of the fabled ‘widescreen iPod’ have been circulating on the web for months.
People have been murmuring too about a touchscreen iPod, and [...]
admin @ December 13, 2008 # No Comment Yet
We have a shining vision of the gaming future.
It involves genuinely 3D graphics that are indiscernible from real life, tactile force feedback suits that simulate pressure and temperature and, very importantly, the removal of clunky manual control in favour of the power of thought alone.
After a few minor-yet-irksome delays, we’ve finally got our hands on [...]
admin @ December 11, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Amazingly, it has been some four years since we last saw a new product from Myryad.
Or maybe not so amazing: one of the things we always liked about Myryad’s products was the way they seemed to be a step ahead of the crowd in certain areas, most notably styling and features.
But the world [...]
admin @ December 7, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Logic Studio is Apple’s most powerful and complete music software package to date. It comprises a suite of tools: Logic Pro 8, a professional sequencer; Soundtrack Pro 2, a post-production program; MainStage, a live performance application; and a selection of superb utilities, instruments, effects and loops.
At the heart of Logic Studio is Logic Pro 8, [...]